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Archive Home > 2011 > July > 31 > Recent floods shatter U.S.’s false belief in taming rivers

Recent floods shatter U.S.’s false belief in taming rivers

By A.G. Sulzberger / The Bulletin
July 31, 2011

DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. — Skeptical locals offered a warning when developers transformed a mostly barren peninsula at the intersection of two rivers into an exclusive planned community, complete with million-dollar homes and a golf course.

They call it “the Dunes” for a reason: The rivers put the....

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